conceive

To have a child; to become pregnant (with).

Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.

She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.

It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.

At the mouth of the cave we found a single litter with six bearers, all of them mutes, waiting, and with them I was relieved to see our old friend Billali, for whom I had conceived a sort of affection.

To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.

Can you conceive of him as a leader?

We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.

To understand (someone).

I conceive you.